Good people everywhere—but especially in Louisiana—have an obligation to speak out in protest, like the staff at nola.com, to the spread of Alabama’s noxious-nitrogen-gas cloud now trying to ...

Darrel Vannoy, Angola's warden, testified that the state would have needed too much extra equipment and supplies to perform executions by electrocution. In Alabama's first nitrogen gas execution ...

Alabama has long been ... and it will use the method of nitrogen hypoxia. No matter what one’s underlying position on the death penalty is, the use of nitrogen gas as an execution method is ...

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Hours after the nation’s first execution by nitrogen gas in January last year, Alabama's attorney general urged other states to also develop it as a method for ...

The protocol closely mirrors that of Alabama, the only state to have carried out nitrogen gas executions in the ... public release of information about suppliers of death penalty materials.

During last week's hearing, state officials described Louisiana's execution protocol using nitrogen gas to be nearly identical to Alabama's. Under the protocol, the subject is strapped to a gurney ...